*Mariah Carey just scored her 17th top 10 album on the Billboard 200 chart as “Me. I Am Mariah … The Elusive Chanteuse” enters at No. 3 with 58,000 sold in the week ending June 1 (according to Nielsen SoundScan).

But the 58,000 in sales is her smallest opening for a non-holiday studio album since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. Her previous low came when 1991’s “Emotions” launched at No. 4 with 156,000.

Carey has tallied six No. 1 albums between 1991 and 2008. Like “Elusive,” her last non-holiday studio effort, 2009’s “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” debuted at No. 3, but with 168,000.

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#3 is #3… leave it alone. Mariah’s legacy stands on its own. Quick. Tell me how high Aretha Franklin’s last CD debuted. Gladys Knight? Patti Labelle? Diana Ross? Tina Turner? Get the point? These women have cemented their place in history and are not selling like they used to, but their legacy is intact. Mariah is in that number.

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